Scroll down for recipes featuring ONLY ingredients that are in-season in May, or have a year-round season.
What’s available year-round?
Fruits: Avocados, lemons & Limes
Vegetables: Beets, broccoli, cabbage, carrots, cauliflower, fennel, garlic, herbs, mushrooms, onion-family, potatoes, radishes, sweet potatoes, turnips, salad greens and herbs.
Detailed pages for each of these will be ready soon! Get a list of all available fruit & vegetable pages, and see what’s in season for other months, here.
What’s starting and ending this month?
Just showing up: Stone fruits and small berries – although depending on where you live, they might not show up until the end of the month, or sometime in June. Keeps your eyes out for stone fruits (apricots, peaches, nectarines and plums), as well as blackberries, raspberries, and blueberries.
Ending this month: Celery and celeriac aren’t locally harvested for the next few months, but show up again in fall. If mandarins hung around this long, you’re lucky, enjoy the last ones!
A note about fruit quality
Stone fruits and the small berries that show up this month stop getting sweeter the moment they are picked. However, they do continue to change color and soften, which can be very deceiving when trying to pick out the best tasting ones. It’s important to find a source that sells tree-ripened stone fruits and vine(or bush)-ripened berries when possible. That’s also why you don’t want to buy them outside of their season!
Now what should I make?
That’s a good question! I scour the internet to find recipes that use fresh, seasonal ingredients, often with a fun twist. Follow Ask The Food Geek on Pinterest or Facebook to get access to the recipes I find every day.
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In-season recipes
Each recipe has been reviewed to make sure the ingredients are all in season for May. They start with breakfast, then lunches & dinners, snacks and sides.
Black forest overnight oats – recipe from A Virtual Vegan
Get more information and recipes for cherries.
Blueberry cake with crumb topping – recipe by My Wife Can Cook
Get more information and recipes for blueberries.
Mascarpone & rhubarb stuffed french toast – recipe from Sugar Hero
Get more information on rhubarb.
Grilled apricot and chicken skewers – recipe on My Diary of Us
Get more information and recipes for apricots.
Ohio pork tenderloin sliders with a Blackberry BBQ sauce and Herbs de Provence – recipe by Home and Plate
Get more information and recipes for blackberries.
Spring mojito stir fry with toasted bar nuts – recipe by Ask The Food Geek
Get more information and recipes for peas and asparagus.
Cherry, rosemary and balsamic roasted chicken – recipe from Heather Christo
Get more information and recipes for cherries.
Charred asparagus cream pasta with blackened lemon chicken by Half Baked Harvest
Get more information and recipes for asparagus.
Stone fruit quinoa salad – recipe by Recipe Runner
Get more information and recipes for plums, peaches, and nectarines and apricots.
Radicchio salad with radishes, prosciutto and raspberry-champagne vinaigrette on Recipe Runner, from Heather Christo’s cookbook Pure Delicious
If this isn’t the prettiest salad I’ve ever seen! Radicchio’s bitterness get balanced out by the rich prosciutto and then the sweet dressing. Get more information on raspberries.
Cherry, brie, and bacon quesadillas – recipe by Use Your Noodles
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Blueberry chicken salad – recipe by Not Starving Yet
This is a perfect mashup of celery season ending, and blueberries and shallots just beginning. Get more information and recipes for celery and blueberries, (shallots coming soon).
Mirepoix – How to make and use it by The Cooking Dish
Mirepoix is the combination of onions, celery, and carrots that make the base of a lot of dishes. Get more information and recipes for celery.
Asparagus and pea soup – recipe by Harriet Emily
Get more information and recipes for asparagus and peas.
Quinoa fritters with spring peas, feta, and cilantro-lime yogurt sauce – recipe from Immigrant’s Table
Get more information and recipes for peas.
Celery root fries – recipe by Viktoria’s Table
Get more information and recipes for celery root (celeriac)
Classic hummus with pine nuts, artichokes, and olive oil – recipe on Grain
Get more information and recipes for artichokes.
Bonus recipes: cocktails & desserts
Strawberry buttercream & pistachio mini cakes – recipe by Rachel Phipps
Get more information and recipes for strawberries.
Nectarine tart with lemon-mascarpone filling – recipe by The Busy Baker
Get more information and recipes for nectarines.
Grilled peaches with vanilla bean mascarpone, honey and granola – recipe by Cooking Classy
Get more information and recipes for peaches.
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